Art Institute of Chicago
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Lodovico CarracciLinkedCulture matchlcp-e94123637b3c
- Date
- 1587/89
- Medium
- Pen and iron-gall ink, with brush and iron-gall ink wash, heightened with white oil paint, over traces of black chalk, on laid paper prepared with a brown oil wash, laid down on paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 202161
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This large and elaborate study for an altarpiece (illustrated below) in the Church of San Francesco in the Italian city of Bologna rivals the final painting in its ambition. The artist invented a mixed pen-and-oil technique to evoke in his drawings the kind of spectacular contrasts between light and dark characteristic of his paintings. The drawing’s bold technique and sharply opposing diagonals generate a drama of centrifugal force as Saint Paul, struck by a flash of light, falls from his rearing horse and soldiers rush to his rescue.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Provenance
- Sold, Sotheby's New York, Jan. 25, 2006, lot 65. Sold by Salamander Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Mar. 3, 2006; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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